PUBLISHER: WIZKIDS | RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW
Starfinder is the sci-fi version of Pathfinder, one of the most popular RPGs in the world. Starfinder isn’t just a science-fiction game though; it takes the fantasy setting of Pathfinder and adds in robots, laser blasters and star-ships without taking away any of the magical and fantastic element. The result is something akin to extreme version of Star Wars, all space opera, all the time.
Of course, these games often require planning and the like to really get maximum amount of fun out of them and that’s where we get the likes of Wizkids producing models and scenery for games. These are well painted sci-fi pieces at a scale suitable for most sci-fi RPGs and tabletop skirmish games. Despite Starfinder itself being a remarkable setting, this Decking Bay set is pretty straight forward.
We get four large containers that are cyndrical and look a bit sci-fi. These are generic enough to be fuel pods or valuable goods boxes and so on; they’re nice enough to look different but also vague in design so you can use them for all sorts of thing n your game. We get two square crates, which seem to a be a standard thing in Wizkids boxes like this and two rectangle shaped crates that again, are generic enough in design that you can use them almost anywhere.
There’s also a bench. It looks a bit out of place here, but it is a handy bit of scenery for pretty much any sci-fi game (and also useful for Heroclix, if you want to throw benches at Doctor Doom).
We also get a cargo hauler and trailer to attach to it. The hauler is a sci-fi style jeep thing and it takes up just enough space on the board to be tactically inconvenient. It’s nice enough but it’s not meant to look amazing, just provide cover and complications for your game. The same applies to the trailer, which is totally going to be turned sideways and used as cover in more heroic games.
Overall, the Starfinder Battles Planets of Peril Docking Bay is a useful addition to any sci-fi miniature gamers collection of terrain and it’s all very well detailed, but it’s nothing terribly special.
